I’m finally starting to get why [building] architects seem weirdly into my writing. Not an audience I’d have ever expected to connect with.
They’re ideology compilers.
Also compilers are underused and operating systems are overused as metaphors for ideology engineering.
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It’s an idea stolen from who did a great talk once on compiler people vs kernel (OS) people. It may still be online somewhere.
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New architects presumably still in the bootstrapping process.
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Heh. Well most are never going to be full blown compilers or OSes so they’re installing themselves into bigger architects’ code
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architect checking in here! we eat this shit up -- maybe we're primed to think about how arch. theory can work its way into every facet of design.
narratives are incredibly important for certain classes of designers



